Sergio Mario

“his cheating and his bitterness and his cruelty were the revolt of his will against—oh, I don’t know what you’d call it—against a deep-rooted instinct of holiness, against a desire for God that terrified and yet obsessed him.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“This is really corny but I am so full of you, it’s like I’m breathing you, you know?” he had said, and she thought that the romance novelists were wrong and it was men, not women, who were the true romantics.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“that the death of earth, is water, and the death of water, is air; and the death of air, is fire; and so on the contrary.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations